Southeast Wisconsin Gets New Deal Democrat Randy Bryce Running For Congress

Let's Flip This District From Red To Blue!

Yesterday, Randy Bryce, “Iron Stache,” announced his campaign for Congress in southeast Wisconsin’s first congressional district, currently held by Trump ally Bryan Steil. It’s an R+2 district made up of Racine and Kenosha counties with parts of Milwaukee, Rock and Walworth. Last cycle, Steil won by over 10 points against a weak, pointless Democrat who had nothing to offer the voters. Randy is a very different kind of candidate. Please take a look at the launch video he released yesterday and consider contributing to his campaign here:

We know him well and we’re proud to endorse him on the first day of the new campaign. He’s a proud New Deal Democrat who has continued to support Bernie and his policies and who has continued to fight for working families. Many of the other Blue America candidates are excited to be running to flip Congress. Travis Terrell, the working class candidate running in southeast Iowa told us that “Like a lot of people, I first got heavily involved in politics after hearing Bernie Sanders speak and realizing there were actually candidates out there who gave a shit about people like me. In 2017, I saw some of Randy’s ads and felt that same spark I did with Bernie. Randy’s love for his mother and his fight to improve her life still resonates with me. I see my own mom in that fight, how much I love her, and how deeply I resent the way this country has failed her and so many like her. Randy wasn’t just brave enough to take on one of the most powerful people in D.C., Paul Ryan. He relished the chance. And even though Ryan stepped away, Randy never did. I couldn’t be more thrilled to see him stepping up once again to fight for working people in Washington. We need more voices like his, loud, proud and unapologetically working class. It would be an honor to fight alongside him in D.C. and show the working class that we have the power to win the war that is being waged on us.” 

Randy reminded his supporters that “There’s a war on the Middle Class and it didn’t start with Trump— but it sure is getting worse. With the help of yes-men like Steil, the billionaires are winning and on the backs of working people.  As our jobs continue to be shipped overseas, wages still stagnant, and unions are gutted, Trump and Steil continue to attack what’s left of the American Dream. They are coming for our healthcare, our retirement, and our public schools...I’ve spent my life on construction sites— not in backrooms with lobbyists. I don’t have a trust fund. I’ve beaten back cancer. I’ve taken care of a sick parent. I’ve served my country in the Army. I know what it means to struggle— and I know what it means to fight.”

And his opponent, Bryan Steil? As Randy put it, “Steil has sold us out to the billionaires. He’s voted to rip away healthcare from seniors and the disabled. He’s stood by while MAGA extremists tore apart our farm economy, wrecked our supply chains, and pushed tax breaks for the ultra-rich, all while plotting to SLASH Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Me? I’m in construction, not demolition. And I believe in building something that lasts:

• Jobs with dignity

• Healthcare as a human right FOR EVERYONE

• And PROTECTING Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare from destruction

Please help make this a successful launch for Randy’s grassroots campaign by contributing what you can here at our Flip Congress Act Blue Page.